Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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oozey mess
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
DEAR READER
Peter Solarz
cherry valley forever
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shark vs the universe
NASA
YOU ARE THE REASON
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the natural lifespan of a fandom is unlimited. when well tended a fandom can be functionally immortal. and yet everywhere you look you see newly bred fandoms withering and dying when they’re barely a year old. barely even six months old. fans are looking at their six month old fandoms and saying i think it’s on its last legs, should i euthanise it? when with the proper care that fandom could outlive them for decades. it’s sad. sad state of affairs we’re in.
theo van gogh was the one who suggested that his older brother vincent start seriously painting. as soon as theo was gainfully employed he gave vincent around 15% of his own yearly salary for art supplies, lodging, and food. about 2/3rds of vincent's surviving letters were to theo (including vincent's earliest and last letters), all of which were found stored in theo's desk. theo's child, vincent willem, was born on january 31st, 1890, and vincent was so delighted by his nephew that he painted almond blossoms for him. vincent shot himself half a year later on july 29th, 1890. theo's distress at his brother's death worsened his syphilis symptoms and he died half a year after his brother on january 25th, 1891 (four days before vincent willem's first birthday). theo was reburied next to vincent in auvers-sur-oise at the request of theo's wife johanna.
Almond Blossoms, 1890, Vincent van Gogh
And that love lived on Theo's wife, Johanna, who was the one who pushed for the preservation of Vincent's paintings. Johanna who made sure that her husband's beloved brother would not be forgotten. Johanna who fought tooth and nail so that Theo and Vincent would never be forgotten. Johanna who carried the family legacy, who made sure that the works of Vincent would be kept in her possession. And then Vincent Willem, named for a uncle so loved, carried this legacy and founded the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.
The van Gogh family history is deeply interwoven with love. It was the love of a brother that gave a young man the courage to paint and the resources to do so. It was the love of a woman for her husband and her husband's beloved brother that made that story known. And it was the love of a nephew, who was so deeply loved even if for such a short time, that made it possible for the world to know Vincent van Gogh.
“What if poor people abuse the system?”
The system intrinsically abuses poor people.
Hope this helps.
The possible issues that could be caused by poor people abusing the system, whether through human error or deliberate fraud, in order to get what they need to survive is statistically infinitesimal when compared to the harm that has already been, and continues to be, caused by the abuse of the system by the super-wealthy, who have never needed survival-level financial help and never will.
I have volunteered at a couple of different food pantries, and I have to tell you: fraud prevention measures raise the percentage of scam and abuse. "Fraud prevention" doesn't eliminate fraud, it raises the percentage of fraudsters who get help. Let me explain.
I used to volunteer at a food pantry that got some of its funding from a government program that required means-testing. That means, we were required to get paperwork from every person we served that they were genuinely poor enough to need help and qualify for it.
So when they came into the building, the first stop was a large room with 8-12 volunteers (depending on the week), who had files and files full of paperwork that they were required to update every time someone came in. The first time someone came to us, they had to have a bunch of documents--and despite a lot of outreach and publicizing, we would inevitably have people who came with some of the documents missing or the wrong documents. A lot of people simply didn't have the documents, because people on the margins of society often have problems like being thrown out of their housing for one reason or another (fight with partner, evicted by landlord, etc). Once you had the paperwork on file with us, you still had to check in with the paper-pushers every time you came to the food pantry, and then every so often (I think yearly?) you had to update your paperwork to prove you were still poor enough to "qualify" for help.
It was a lot of work to check all that paperwork and check people in and all that stuff. Even with 8-12 people working in that room, and even with most people already on our books and thus having a file already, so they only needed a few minutes to check in, there was always a long line of people waiting.
Once the paperwork was (finally) done, they'd come down the hall to the room with the actual food in it. There were usually 3-4 volunteers working in that room, and the clients would come to the door, hand one of them a slip of paper with the number of people in their household, and get handed a bag of food.
The paperwork took 2-3 times the number of volunteers, and at least ten times the time, as the actual distribution of food did.
And we regularly had people come looking for help and walk out defeated by the paperwork. Maybe they couldn't get the papers. Maybe they didn't have time to wait--they had a job to get to, or kids needing them, or their ride had a job to get to. Or they just got frustrated or humiliated and decided that it was better to go hungry than put up with that shit. Sometimes they left in tears. All that paperwork, all that effort to root out fraud and abuse, it regularly turned away people in genuine need.
You know who had all the time in the world to fight their way through the bureaucracy?
The fraudsters. The grifters. (And we did, very very rarely, get one.) They would take whatever time it took to get what they wanted.
Means-testing didn't prevent them from getting help. It did prevent genuinely needy people from getting help. And, bonus, it required 2-3 times the number of volunteers, and also required more paid government bureaucracy to handle and process the reports.
Any measures you take to prevent people from abusing the system will inevitably increase the percentage of fraud (by driving away people in genuine need), and also make things vastly less efficient and more expensive by requiring lots of people to handle the bureaucracy.
another fun thing that happens is that you up your fraud prevention and then you cut your budgets to the bone in the name of "saving money" and THEN when overworked people trying to do fraud prevention make mistakes you penalize them for it in ways that make the programs even more expensive to operate and meanwhile. the fraudsters -- and there aren't many of them -- are still happily frauding along, and government employees are stressed out, underpaid, and overworked, and food bank volunteers are stressed out and overworked, and people who need food aren't getting food.
having 40 minutes to leave the house is fked because 40 minutes is basically 30 minutes and 30 minutes is basically 20 minutes and 20 minutes is basically fifteen seconds. but 50 minutes? 50 minutes is an hour, and an hour? ooobh thats plany off time
thinking about shane in the press room scene when he’s like “with rozanov’s permission,” and then waits for ilya to nod before continuing. in a world where everything means something, this little moment means one of my favorite things of all. and then their shoes touch. and the shoes touching, to me, is similar to the wink in the water bottle scene. it’s “thank you” but it’s also “good boy” in a way. it’s also “i’m here” and it’s so good. and we must all remember that in my world everything is about sex a little bit. and a lot of the time also BDSM. especially this. “with rozanov’s permission” is an excellent choice of words. and i think that whole scene is such a good example of the ways that shane is capable of giving to ilya. what he has to offer him, as it were. how well he understands/intuits the right ways to support ilya, even from the beginning. do you know what i mean? it’s not a kink scene in the traditional sense but in a way it is a good example of how they both benefit from their dynamic. shane is identifying that ilya needs something and he’s giving it to him in a way that still places control of the situation in ilya’s hands. he defers, he asks for permission, he puts himself in the submissive position. and he’s saying hey i see it i’ve got it take it from me it’s ok i want to give it to you. he does this again in the tampa hotel scene when ilya starts crying and shane says hey here i am take what you need i can give it to you i want to give it to you. and ilya takes it. because shane wants ilya to have it, because shane wants to give it to him. with rozanov’s permission. smiling through it all and i really mean that i’m just smiling so huge about it
next time you encounter something confusing, try using your fan fiction reading device to access websites like "wikipedia" or "miriam webster" to break down those pesky difficult topics. its sorta like a "enemies to lovers" situation, where the scary new knowledge can become your friend - and then you won't look so unflattering when you comment
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Omfg I can't believe how catty Spock and McCoy are to each other.
Gideon The Ninth- mock dustcover
I draw book covers for freelance all the time. I feel pretty lucky to do so, and wanted to create one with all my free will and spare time, to make just for me. Well, and for you lot as well. But mainly, for me.
I will be drawing book 2 and book 3 as well. And potentalially have prints of them later this year.
(For cover commissions email me at [email protected])
Need these as alternate dust jackets asap please, thanks!
ICE now tackling press.
Source.
Interview where he talks about what happened.
A photographer for Getty isn't even a journalist so much as an archivist. ICE violently disrupted the apolitical documentation of what they were doing, violating any and all rights that might flimsily stand in their way. It would have been just as wrong had they done this to an MSNBC reporter hellbent on a spin, but now Abernathy's neutral action as a photographer has been rendered necessarily political by ICE's violence.
They know what they're doing is objectively evil. They have no intention of stopping.
previous tags from @nihilisticspacequeer, which provide a bit of context for why Abernathy threw his (extremely expensive) camera
they got way more on camera too. lookit this shit. source
they knock him down from behind, they're kneeling on him, and they've set off tear gas. his arms are pinned under him and he can't breathe. look at this photo of his face.
I'm gagging and literally thought I’m going to pass out. I couldn’t breathe. I was thinking I only have a couple of breaths left and I don’t know what’s going to happen after that. I had taken that last shot and I threw my camera. I lifted my head up and saw one photographer taking photos. I threw my camera and then I threw my phone.
this last picture is his camera on top of his citation.
but the insane thing? yk how he said
I had taken that last shot and I threw my camera.
THIS IS THE LAST SHOT
THIS is the photo he took before he threw his camera. how poignant.
check out the article source too, it's a really good read.
the fact that shane, for a brief moment, thougt about wearing a suite for a secret hook up with ilya... shane you mean everything to me
shane, you nervous idiot. you mean the world to me
<gender neutral video game character creation screen voice> do youuu want to be. the man or thr wo- haha i nean. the biiiig strongmoscles or . small waist big booba
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
Might I add:
The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed
The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child
The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship
The adventures of a space roomba
Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)
I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head
hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):
The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)
The Monster of Sentan
The Witch’s Cat
Raise Both Children
Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)
Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)
My Arch Nemesis Cynthia
Pirates and Mermaid
Eindred and the Witch
The Demon King
The Cornerwitch
Grandmother Beetroot
Apocalypse Daycare Worker
Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon
New Year Saga
A Story About Changelings
Ranger in the King’s Forest
The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit
Goblin Men (Canines)
I am in love with you /p
Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella
21. The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship
22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed
adding the Doctors Without Borders one
I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!
24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children
25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard
26. Haunted house
27. Shark hero was about to go rogue
28. Grandma lives in the woods comic
29. A Different Aftermath comic
30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)
31. It’s A Date comic
32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay
33. Narrative Town
34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic
35. Robot Apocalypse
36. The Statues That Do Not Weather
37. Kushiel
38. Tooth Fairy
39. Alien abduction
40. Felonious wish-granting
41. When humans met actual space orcs
42. Space cousins
WAIT REBLOG THIS VERSION INSTEAD
Who ever added those links without asking is doing lord’s work fs.
Reblogging this again cause I never want this post to die
Making it a tradition to reblog whenever I see it.
i love the dean & cas character takeaways from my bloody valentine. we learn that dean is so starved for love he's basically become dead inside and convinced no one will love him as deeply as he loves and wants to be loved. crazy revelation. devastating implications going forward not something you can go back from. and then for castiel it's just like. ohhhhh ok. so his desire is a bottomless pit. great. well maybe if we put our heads together and send out some emails. cc some people. you know we could really solve both problems. two gay birds one stonewall brick or whatever. but no it's 11 seasons of this shit could've been an email central. and love CAN get crazier than that even
cowboy AU commission for Fey
commission info
Enikő Katalin Eged (Hungarian, b. 1992, Budapest, Hungary) - Bodega Cat's, Paintings: Digital Arts
this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving
what the FUCK man.
it’s peter pringle posting hours.
